Atletico Madrid began the 2025-26 LaLiga season without a win after a 2-1 defeat at Espanyol and a 1-1 home draw with Elche. The club has never started a season with three winless matches under Diego Simeone, with the last similar start occurring in 2009-10 under Abel Resino. Simeone emphasizes the need for calm, patience and defensive improvement while integrating many new players. Atletico have signed ten players and allowed 12 departures, and the transfer window remains open until Monday with further moves possible. Alaves prepare to host Atletico, with Jon Guridi noted as a player to watch.
"It's always difficult to give scores to the work being done with so many new people,"
"The team has worked well in these matches, with areas for improvement, especially defensively. But anything less than picking up points is not positive, especially in our position. We have to focus on improvements, on continuing to build on what went well and, above all, on staying calm. In difficult times, we have to face them calmly in order to play the game the way we want to."
"As always at the end of the transfer window, we are keeping an eye on everything until the last day," "I'm completely open at this stage to someone coming in or leaving, always with tension and talking daily with the board to finalise the squad as we need to."
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